Where does the belief in the Grim Reaper come from?

Answer 1

In Celtic legend:

Ankou (Ahn-koo) is the personification of death who comes to collect the souls of passed-over humans. He is male dark, wearing a black-robed costume pulled up high about his head and a large hat that conceals his face. No one living has ever seen his face, for to do so would be to die.He drives a black cart, though some say it is really a small coach or even a hearse, drawn by four black horses. When there are two many patrons, he is assisted by two skelettons who hurl the copses into the cart. He is always preceded by a cold gust of wind.

Answer 2

I Think That The Grim Reaper Is The As The Angel Of Death
Wears Black Robe And Hood Signaling An Unknown Journey And An Unknown Destination And Holds The Scythe Or The Sickle To Harvest Souls

Answer 3

I guess when societies started farming and growing grain, they thought that people grew like grain until they were harvested by a reaper guy. I don't know if non-grain-based societies have a skeletal character with a scythe. Probably not.

I have a fever, and the only prescription is, more cowbell!

Answer 4

Blue Oyster Cult

Answer 5

Wikipedia to the rescue!

Think about it though, back in the old days, they didn't have a lot of explainations for certain things, such as disease, so, they blamed it on other stuff... Death Gods, doing something such as urinating in a fairy circle, was believed to have caused VD... Which nowadays we know isn't true, but this was how they explained things back then.

Answer 6

there is a death angel , maybe that's where it comes from